rogueliketutorial2021 VS glsp

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Done with another week! Once again, I basically just followed the tutorial word for word while I try and figure out how to deviate from it in my spare time. I got a bit frustrated trying to make some changes last week, so for now I'm just keeping a list of things I'd like to try and any ideas I have for making them happen, and then I'll probably go back once the whole tutorial is done and start tweaking/messing with things. repo

Third time's the charm - or at least I hope so. Have done a few tutorials each year during/after the attempt only to mostly forget everything I've learned during the year between. Going to try really hard to follow along this year, managed to get through part 0 and 1 without many issues. Am probably only going to use Python/Tcod per the tutorial. I'd like to make something with an urban fantasy/anime-inspired theme. Here's my repo: https://github.com/RivalRoman/rogueliketutorial2021

3. Typed Racket

I almost used https://gamelisp.rs/ for a project but the nightly feature it needs broke and it's no longer maintained, glad to see something similar arise! You might want to consider adopting their choice of VecDeque as a list replacement, I think it makes a lot more sense than naive linked lists on modern machines.

Varied employment history has left me with great soft skills and a broad grab-bag of technical skills, mostly leaning towards high-performance systems programming. Major solo projects have included the scripting language GameLisp, a 2D game engine, and a novel computer vision library.

"Gamelisp is a scripting language for Rust game development." Feature list from the page: No garbage collection pauses (runs gc once per frame), Seamless Rust API, Memory-safe, Feature-rich ("Pattern‑matching, iterators, coroutines, macros..."), Easy entity scripting.

I'm using Rust to build a host program, and the actual game logic written in GameLisp on top of the bracket-lib. I only have superficial knowledge of Rust, 0 lisp experience, and never embedded a language before, so that's a lot to learn and implement at the same time.

I'm not sure I'll go to the end of the 8 weeks, but I'll make that as fun/interesting as possible and (try to) use GameLisp!

I feel qualified to answer this! GameLisp was once implemented with highly unsafe code, but later on I reimplemented it using only safe code, with a very small amount of optional unsafety behind a feature flag. GameLisp's performance is currently somewhere between Lua and Python when unsafe code is switched on, or a bit slower than Python when unsafe code is switched off.

It took a lot of wrestling with the type system, but I've managed to wring out several API improvements for version 0.2. I already considered GameLisp's Rust API to be best-in-class, and this release polishes it even further: